New Findings on How Chronic Stress Can Cause Mental Illnesses
This blog has written numerous times about the importance of acute stress for increased mental performance (such as here,
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Improve Your Brain Power Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
For those that are trying to figure out a scientifically verified way to improve intelligence and brain function, will be
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Daniel Kahneman On Why We Shouldn’t Always Trust Our Gut Feelings
Have you made decisions simply based on intuition – or what people call as gut feeling? While you might have struck gold
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Why Do We Wake Up Before Getting to Our Bus or Train Stop?
Have you ever noticed how you have the uncanny ability to wake up from your nap right before getting off the bus or train stop,
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Older Brains Slow Due to Greater Experience, Rather Than Cognitive Decline
This article originally appeared in Scientific Computing. What happens to our cognitive abilities as we age? Traditionally
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Epilepsy Drug the Secret to Perfect Pitch?
A team of international scientists might have discovered a way to reopen critical periods of brain development, allowing
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How Temperature Affects Our Decision Making Abilities
Recent research suggests that even small variances in temperature impair our cognitive abilities, mainly our ability to
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Coffee Drinkers Live Longer
Coffee drinkers, jump for joy. A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that coffee drinkers
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Intuition, Gut Feeling, and the Brain: Understanding Our Intuition
Has there ever been a time when you swear that you know about certain things and events that will happen,
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Timothy Salthouse’s Study on Cognitive Abilities and its Correlation with Age
Traditional neuroscience tells us that our mental abilities peak during our late 20s, as our brain brain volume shrink and
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